CVE-2024-50179

Updated on 08 Nov 2024

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ceph: remove the incorrect Fw reference check when dirtying pages

When doing the direct-io reads it will also try to mark pages dirty, but for the read path it won’t hold the Fw caps and there is case will it get the Fw reference.

Details

Affected packages:
linux-hwe @ 4.15.0 (+8 more)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ceph: remove the incorrect Fw reference check when dirtying pages

When doing the direct-io reads it will also try to mark pages dirty, but for the read path it won’t hold the Fw caps and there is case will it get the Fw reference.

Fixes